The Byrdcliffe holds just 120 October-people, reserve now, this will sell out quick!

Saturday October 2, 2010
Performance: 8:00pm
$20 entry, reserve tickets at: dukeofgalilee@gmail.com
For directions to the theater click here

Don’t Wake The Scarecrow

Available exclusively at simonefelice.com as well as all live SF appearances beginning August 7 in New York City through this Summer’s UK solo tour and beyond…

Pre-order now here, and have your CD ship by August 1st!

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Thursday, July 29, at Woodstock’s Historic Bearsville Theater, Felice will perform a special 40 minute acoustic set as part of the “Appalachian Voices” tour in support of this splendid and necessary cause. More info @ www.ILoveMountains.org

I’m alive. Got my breast-bone sawed in two and my lungs collapsed and the main valve of my heart replaced by a carbon device that ticks like a pocket watch to the beat of my blood for the rest of my days, but I’m alive. Strange days indeed. What a wild thing to learn from the doctor: that for years you’ve been existing off 1/8th of the blood and oxygen your body and brain need, that he’s baffled your still alive, that you would’ve surely died within the next year. Before I could say ‘It’s the day of the big surprise’ I was under the knife. I want everybody who prayed for me or sent me their warm thoughts, to know that your goodness did not fall on deaf ears, I’m convinced that in some way I must have received every last one, and that all the love I’ve been shown in this hard time has indeed helped me make it through and to heal up so well and quickly.

When I wrote ‘If You Ever Get Famous’ two summers ago I could never have guessed at the significance of the line ‘I’ll say a prayer for your heart’, but you all did, and I’m sure it’s what saved my life. So hot-damn, I’ve got my blood flowing again!, especially in my brain and rambling feet, and, now that I’m able, I’m writing songs and taking long walks in the quiet woods, I even felt good enough to join my dear brothers for a set at Pete Seeger’s annual Clearwater festival to benefit our beautiful Hudson River, the main artery of the valley and mountains we grew up in. We played ‘Radio Song’ and everybody sang ‘please don’t you ever die’ and it was music to my ears, to say the least.

I was very upset to have missed my shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter, Boston, and Toronto, this emergency surgery fell on me like a storm and hit smack in the middle of these dates, please know that I can’t wait to reschedule and see you guys really soon. I’ve just had my first look-over by the kindest cardiologist in Albany and he says that I’ll be fine to be back on the road in August, that by then I’ll be feeling like a teenager, or like a Comanche on his first warhorse, so I’m already greatly looking forward to every one of the scheduled New York and UK solo shows at Summer’s end, and to the September release of the new D&K album ‘Long Live The Duke & The King’. An old-timer used to say to us: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Now I really know what he meant. So with a new chrome heart full of joy, melodies, and renewed purpose, I say: See you all down the highway, where we’ll sing us a jailbird song, a rebel song, a song to keep us warm.

With Love and Gratitude,

Simone Edward Felice, of the Catskill Mountain Felices’

Love always & forever,

The D & The K

We must tell you all, with a heaviness we cannot convey of the news that our dearest brother Simone Felice was rushed late last night to Albany Medical Center. Simone has been scheduled for emergency open-heart surgery as a result of Aortic Stenosis. We are devastated, yet hopeful that he will pull through. We will not be playing Mountain Jam and all dates for June and July have been cancelled.

He loves you all more than you could ever know, so please send all of your thoughts & prayers Simone’s way.

We will keep you informed of his condition in the coming days.

Love always & forever,

Simi Stone
Bobby Bird
Nowell Haskins

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